Oriental Methods in Hypnotism, Telepathy, Concentration, Magnetic Healing, Magic and Wonders of the Orient

BRANCH SIX of the Elmer E. Knowles System of PERSONAL INFLUENCE and HEALING

From the beginning of civilisation, the Orient has always been regarded as the head and front of what we may — for want of a more comprehensive term — call magic and mysticism. For this eminence, she is indebted to the reports of the wonders worked by Eastern occultists, reports which have been accompanied by accumulated evidence, too convincing to be ignored.

The Magic of the East — the devotees of which are to a great extent members of the Hindu caste — is not a product of the professional illusionist. Rather is it a manifestation of the marvellous pent-up forces, inherent in all of us.

All the phenomena of hypnotism, telepathy, clairvoyance, magnetic Healing, etc. etc. seem to have been well-known and to have been currently practised among the Hindus many thousands of years before our present Era, and it is not surprising, therefore, that the most accomplished adepts in the occult arts are to be found in India.

The powers which these adepts are reported to possess seem well-nigh incredible. Thousands of earnest investigators, travelling in the East, have gone, in a sceptical mood, to witness these uncanny experiments. Their scepticism has been dispelled and they have gone away mystified and puzzled, out believing.

It. is common knowledge that those who are in possession of a complete knowledge of Eastern magic, have been able, by look or word, to restrain ferocious tigers and other wild beasts of the forest from attacking human beings, but they are able to do more, for they have exercised their Will-Power upon their subjects at immense distances, even thousands of miles.

My students, who study this Course conscientiously, will recognise that it is a successful attempt to bridge over the great gulf, which separates the mental from the purely material.

Elusive though these doctrines may be, they are nevertheless tangible facts, gleaned by the author from the storehouse of the East only after long and patient investigation and study. There is nothing supernatural in these experiments, which depend for their successful execution on the trained exercise of the Human Will and on the Will only. Through the Power of Concentration, the student is taught to play on chords — to borrow a metaphor from music — which are beyond the reach of the uninitiated.

No one can deny that we live in daily, hourly, contact with forces of a realm, which is imperceptible to our physical senses and in endeavouring to duplicate, at will, these marvellous manifestations of the East, the student must give full and unfettered play to all his psychic forces, for it is only in this way that satisfying success can be achieved.

It is, however, not my intention to superimpose any tuition of my own on the very clear exposition of the Eastern methods for which our thanks are due to the Hindoo Priest, Swami Ramayanda. The methods expounded are crystal-clear ; the language used is such that none will experience difficulty in following the thought of the Master, so that the Student cannot fail to acquire at least some additional inner force, through learning and applying these methods of the occult.

As is very generally known, Eastern psychics have a repertory of at least sixty methods of inducing hypnosis, a few of which may be briefly "described as follows :

Method No. 1. — The operator rotates hisright hand, fingers extended, before the subject's eyes, which gradually close in sleep. This method may be varied by making downward passes as shown.

Method No. 2. — The subject who is seated, is told to repeat monosyllables in a low voice, the operator simultaneously making passes before his eyes. This results in drowsiness followed by deep hypnosis.

Method No. 3. — The operator places his right hand on. the subject's head and simultaneously makes passes over the spine of the medium who is seated in an erect position.

Method No. 4. — By this method, the operator induces hypnosis by gazing downward into the subject's eyes, at the same time, issuing suitable suggestions, either verbally or mentally.

Method No. 5. — A book is handed to the subject with the request to read and spell every word in it. Hypnosis usually follows before he has read a page.

Method No. 6. — The operator strikes a metal cup with an iron, rod and informs the subject that she will fall asleep at the hundredth stroke.

Method No. 7. — The subject's eyes being closed, the operator rests his index-finger lightly on the lids, the remaining fingers reposing on the forehead and issues appropriate hypnotic suggestions.

Method No. 8. — The operator makes passes over a glass of pure water within sight of the subject and tells her that on. drinking it, she will fall asleep. After she has drunken, deep hypnosis soon follows.

Method No. 9. — The subject gazes intently into the reflexion, of her own eyes in a mirror held at a distance of about ten inches, the operator making suitable suggestions to facilitate the induction of hypnosis.

Method No. 10. — One of the most effective Indian methods for inducing hypnosis is for the operator and subject to stare into each other's eyes until the subject becomes hypnotised.

Method No. 11. — The operator places the back of the fingers of both hands on the subject's forehead, which he presses lightly, telling the subject that the fingers will become so heavy that the subject will be obliged to close his eyes.

Method No. 12. — The subject having closed her eyes, concentrates on sleep, during which the operator makes appropriate passes. Coupled with suitable suggestions, this method will gradually induce hypnosis.

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